After two hot and unrelenting hours of legal preamble, the judge finally
announced his decision yesterday to grant Oscar Pistorius bail. The athlete
dropped his head and sobbed.

A shout of “Yes!” rang from the back of the room, but there was no celebration
from the Paralympian or his relatives, who appeared painfully aware that
this was not a moment to smile.

Instead brother, sister, uncle, aunt and father gathered in a circle and
prayed, as the man who last week shot dead his girlfriend was told that he
would be going home to his family. Within 90 minutes, Mr